Case Reports

Keywords: sewage pollution – record keeping – failure to maintain

Keywords: suspended sentences — enforcement notices — environmental permit

Keywords: watercourse pollution —environmental permits — wet wipes

Statute reference: Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

Keywords: restriction order — new powers — no environmental permit

Statute reference: Environmental Protection Act 1990

Statute reference: Environmental Protection Act 1990 section 34(1)

Keywords: Company director liability — Illegal waste storage

Keywords: Management failings — sewage pollution — large fine

On 23 November 2018, the Environment Agency (EA) announced that it had accepted an offer from Wessex Water following a series of sewage spills. It said that Wessex Water was owner and operator of a sewage treatment works near Swanage Bay, Dorset. Between 2016 and 2017, a series of sewage spillages occurred, where an estimated 142,000m³ of sewage was discharged into the sea.